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PMC6662528_01
Female
25
A 25-year-old right-handed woman was admitted to our hospital with a 3-week history of intermittent non-throbbing bilateral headache involving frontal and temporal lobes, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, left upper extremity numbness and weakness, left-sided tongue and perioral numbness, and involuntary movements of th...
intracranial hypertension, involuntary movement, steroids, syndrome of transient headache and neurological deficits with cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (handl)
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PMC6066802_01
Male
21
A 21-year-old man presented with upper abdominal pain since 3 months associated with intermittent vomiting, melena, and 7 kg weight loss. Clinical examination revealed pallor with lump in epigastric region approximately 2 cm x1.5 cm in size. The lump was nontender, moving with respiration, with normal overlying skin an...
gastroduodenal, fistula, gastric outlet, malignancy, tuberculosis
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PMC6066802_02
Female
24
A 24-year-old woman presented with nonbilious, nonprojectile vomiting, 1 to 2 hours after meals, with low-grade fever for 1 month. There was loss of appetite with significant loss of weight. Clinical examination showed pallor. Routine investigations are summarized in Table 1. There was microcytic hypochromic anemia. Up...
gastroduodenal, fistula, gastric outlet, malignancy, tuberculosis
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PMC6066802_03
Female
22
A 22-year-old woman presented with history of upper abdominal pain, mild in intensity, dull aching, nonradiating, associated with occasional nonbilious vomiting since 1 month. There was no clinical evidence of abdominal lump or lymphadenopathy. Routine investigations are summarized in Table 1. There was mild microcytic...
gastroduodenal, fistula, gastric outlet, malignancy, tuberculosis
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PMC5303562_01
Male
69
The patient was a 69 year-old male with a history of waxing and waning cognitive decline. In addition, the patient had visual hallucinations, and significant balance problems with numerous reported falls and a history of a Parkinsonian disorder. He had a limited response to L-Dopa, but had an early good response to Exe...
alzheimer’s disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, dementia, neurotrauma, traumatic brain injury
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PMC5303562_02
Male
41
The patient was a 41 year-old male with a history of participation in the National Football League for multiple seasons over the course of years. Upon retirement, the patient began to exhibit forgetfulness that was subsequently followed by progressive agitation, depression, anxiety, and agoraphobia in the years prior t...
alzheimer’s disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, dementia, neurotrauma, traumatic brain injury
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PMC5303562_03
Male
74
The patient was a 74 year-old man at the time of death with a past medical history positive for atrial fibrillation and AD (clinically diagnosed at age 67). His initial symptoms included an inability to compute simple percentage discounts at his furniture store, followed by a gradual progression with variable response ...
alzheimer’s disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, dementia, neurotrauma, traumatic brain injury
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PMC4272956_01
Male
81
A strain of S. marcescens, designated GN1384, was isolated from the urine of a 81-yr-old male patient who suffered from urinary tract infections in September 2009 and was admitted to the second hospital of Hefei, China. Species identification was performed with the Vitek2 system (bioMerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) and...
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PMC9868274_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old adult, Hispanic male was presented to the Emergency Department (ED) by his family via personal automobile. According to the family, the patient was unconscious for approximately 10 minutes during which time he did not receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Upon arrival, he was found to be in cardia...
c diphtheria, corynebacterium diphtheriae, corynebacterium diphtheriae infection, critical care medicine, non-toxigenic corynebacterium diphtheriae, prolonged qt syndrome
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PMC7908333_01
Male
61
A 61-year-old man with no preceding history of genitourinary infections, surgery or trauma and no risk factors for testicular cancer, he denied any contact with tuberculosis patients. He was referred with a 6-month history of right-sided testicular pain and scrotal enlargement witch was progressive, without extra genit...
sarcoidosis, scrotal mass, testis
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PMC9712710_01
Male
50
A 50-year-old man sought treatment in several hospitals because of a severe dry cough. The cough first appeared in December 2020 without obvious inducement, accompanied by a small amount of white foam sputum and sticky sputum. During 1 month, the patient's cough gradually worsened, with dyspnea after activities and par...
case report, chylothorax, dry cough, enhanced computed tomography, superior vena cava syndrome
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PMC9389152_01
Male
65
A 65-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital because of fever and headache lasting for 5 days. The patient long had poor oral hygiene and 4 years ago, the patient underwent implantation of mandibular dentures. Fever usually occurred at noon and was generally under 38 C. In addition, the patient was presented...
anaerobes, case report, intracranial aneurysm, meningitis, oral microflora
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PMC10242072_01
Female
6
Despite vaccination (Moderna, booster 6 months earlier), a 34-year-old patient affected by B-lymphoblastic leukemia t(9;22)(q34;q11.2) BCR-ABL1 developed Omicron BA.5 infection while waiting for her scheduled transplant from a matched unrelated donor (MUD). She was referred to our center for allo-HSCT after treatment w...
covid – 19, sars – cov – 2, acute b-lymphoblastic leukemia, allogeneic transplant, veno-occlusive disease
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PMC5847294_02
Female
58
The third patient is a 58-year-old female with a single kidney and nephrotic syndrome. She complained of feeling weak, dry skin, alopecia, and severe fatigue, clinically consistent with hypothyroidism. Her 24-hour urinary protein was approximately 1 g/day. Her low serum thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG, 5.6 microg/mL, r...
hypothyroidism, mass spectrometry, tsh, thyroid, thyroid hormones
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PMC3307457_01
Male
63
A 63-year-old male presented with swelling in the right inguinal region for the past 10 years with a sudden increase in size since two months. On examination, a single, firm three cm swelling was felt in the right inguinal region. No abnormality was detected in the left inguinal region. No other lesion such as an ulcer...
granular cell tumor, histiocytes, inguinal, lymphocytes
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PMC3262522_01
Female
23
We describe the case of a 23-year-old girl with unknown HCM, that has syncope after a basketball game. In the medical evaluation Cardiac auscultation in left lateral decubitus and orthostatic position revealed no systolic murmur, and she did an echocardiogram that reveals HCM. She has septal hypertrophy (Figure 1 and s...
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PMC7666697_01
Male
43
A 43-year-old non-diabetic Indian male reported to our outpatient department with chief complaints of cough with expectoration, chest pain, reduced appetite, fever with chills, and night sweats for two weeks. He also complained of breathlessness on exertion and had two episodes of blood in his sputum. The patient expla...
covid-19, sars-cov-2, tuberculosis
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PMC6873422_01
Female
3
Our patient is a 3-year-old Pakistani female born to first-degree cousins. She presented at the age of 10 months with enlarged cervical lymph nodes and diarrhea. She had multiple admissions for recurrent diarrheal illnesses. The diarrhea started at the age of 7 days, with a frequency of more than 10 times per day of wa...
chronic granulomatous disease, early-onset colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, primary immunodeficiency
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PMC8302404_02
Male
53
A 53-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of fever and cytopenia for 2 months. He went to a local hospital initially. Laboratory tests showed Hb 83 g/L, PLT count 53 x 109/L, and serum globulin 68.8 g/L. The T-SPOT test was positive. Ultrasound examination revealed right pleural effusion, abdominal effusio...
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PMC4307963_01
Male
6
Presented here is a case of a twenty-six-year-old young male who was brought to the emergency room in a state of unconsciousness following by massive drug intake. He was diagnosed with complex partial seizures with secondary generalization 14 years earlier and was on antiepileptic treatment with 300-mg/day phenytoin so...
drug toxicity, psychiatric disorders, suicide, temporal lobe epilepsy
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PMC7772466_02
Male
71
A 71 year old man with a history of recent onset hypertension presented to the hospital for evaluation of moderate renal failure (eGFR = 37 ml/min per 1.72 m2) and proteinuria (1.5 g/d) discovered 4 months earlier. On presentation, he was mildly tachypneic (oxygen saturation 90% while breathing ambient air) and had mod...
c3 glomerulonephritis (c3gn), immunotactoid glomerulonephritis, bortezomib, glomerulonephritis, monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (mgrs)
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PMC5458696_01
Female
62
A 62-year-old female diabetic patient presented in our outpatient department with complaints of pain in the right shoulder and inability to raise arm of 2 weeks duration. The medical history revealed generalized malaise and weight loss although no history of fever in the last 3 months. There is no history of trauma. Lo...
tuberculosis, humerus, osteomyelitis, spontaneous fracture
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PMC6487276_01
Male
62
A 62-year-old male presented with a cutaneous tumor on the left arm and lymphadenopathy in the left axilla. Skin biopsy showed a diffuse infiltration of tumor cells with immunoblastoid cytomorphology. The cells were positive for CD4, CD123, TCL1, and MYC and partly positive for CD56 (Fig. 1A-G); but negative for CD3, C...
allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm, donor change, myc rearrangement
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PMC6676783_01
Male
9
A 9-year-old male patient with a history of backache was referred from a district hospital to the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, Gauteng province, South Africa, due to severe upper back pain and gibbus (kyphosis) deformity that emerged over 8 months prior to admission. He had no history of tuberculosis contact or...
extrapulmonary tuberculosis, laboratory diagnosis, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, radiological improvement, spinal tuberculosis
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PMC8032958_01
Male
8
An 8-year-old boy presents with increasing fatigue (past 2 weeks) and new acute-onset symptoms of aphasia, ataxia, headaches, and progressive vertigo for the past 24 h. He has no personal of family history of clotting disorders, strokes or autoimmune/inflammatory disease. He has had no infections in the past year and n...
cns, cns inflammation, childhood, diagnosis, inflammation, pediatric, treatment, vasculitis
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PMC8032958_02
Female
4
A 4-year-old girl presents with headaches and symptoms suggestive of a cerebrovascular stroke (vomiting with some language and speech delays). She has a past medical history of a clinically diagnosed Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) infection 6 months ago. There's no history of strokes or clotting disorders in her personal...
cns, cns inflammation, childhood, diagnosis, inflammation, pediatric, treatment, vasculitis
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PMC10251288_02
Female
1
A 1-year-old female child, firstborn of second-degree consanguineous marriage, with global developmental delay, presented with three episodes of seizures. History of seizures at 2 months of age was not evaluated. No history was suggestive of infection and immunodeficiency. Dermatological examination revealed hypopigmen...
chediak higashi, griscelli, light microscopy, silver hair
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PMC6147960_01
Female
33
The first patient, a 33-year-old Kuwaiti (Middle Eastern) female was referred to the TB Control Unit of the Chest Diseases Hospital in January 2003 with the diagnosis of cold abscess of the right gluteus medius muscle with adjacent trocentric involvement. Both the hip joints and psoas muscles were normal. Ultrasonic gu...
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PMC6147960_02
Male
63
The second patient, a 63-year-old diabetic Kuwaiti (Middle Eastern) male was the father of the first patient and lived with his daughter. He was diagnosed with pulmonary TB nearly two years earlier (June 2000). The M. tuberculosis isolate recovered from this patient in the year 2000 was susceptible to INH, SM, EMB and ...
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PMC3794623_01
Female
36
In February, 2012, a 36-year-old woman visited our outpatient department due to the progression of a skin disease for several months. Eight months before visiting, she found a pruritic, noduloplaque skin rash over her trunk and extremities. Concurrently, a growing, fungating lesion 15 cm in diameter was in the left lat...
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PMC6201338_01
Male
58
A 58-year-old male was referred to the rheumatology clinic for evaluation of arthralgia of the hands, wrists, and elbows. The patient's symptoms started six months prior and gradually worsened. The patient endorsed swelling of the hands and wrists, difficulty making fists, as well as morning stiffness lasting more than...
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PMC8100432_01
Female
38
The first case of an Italian contracting COVID-19 was documented on February 21, 2020. "Patient 1" is a 38-year-old man from a small town near Milan whose wife was pregnant. In the turmoil of the breaking news, this detail was often repeated. Our thoughts:as a medical anthropologist and an activist mother engaged in th...
covid-19, italy, birth, covidian, maternity care, midwifery, public health, reproductive rights
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PMC7755560_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old female gravida 2 para 0110 presented to the obstetric and gynecologic clinic to establish prenatal care. Her estimated gestational age determined by last menstrual period was 10 weeks 6 days. A diagnosis of missed abortion was made after ultrasound revealed a crown rump length of 9.2 mm, consistent with a...
administration–intravaginal, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, sanguinarine
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PMC10214961_04
Transgender
18
The annual incidence of LYH may be estimated at one case per 9 million. Data from 4 large patient analyses (905-2500 people) indicate that LYH is seen in less than 1% (0.88-0.24%) of all surgical pituitary specimens. In 2012, Kalra et al. indicated that the number of children under 18 years old with LYH was greater tha...
diabetes insipidus, germinoma, histiocytosis, pituitary stalk thickening, children
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PMC9898808_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old healthy woman of Turkish ancestry was referred to our clinic for a second opinion. She had a history of seeking emergency assistance in another hospital 1 month before with redness, purulent discharge, and discomfort in her OS, with contralateral involvement after 4 days. At this time, she was diagnosed w...
atonic pupil, bilateral cute iris transillumination syndrome, iris transillumination, moxifloxacin/dexamethasone, pigment dispersion
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PMC6589305_01
Female
38
A 38-year-old nonsmoking female presented with left-sided chest pain and dyspnea for three consecutive days. The patient was admitted to Masih Daneshvari Hospital on September 19, 2016. She had no history of fever, weight loss, and arthralgia or skin rash. Her blood pressure was 110/70 mmHg, pulse rate was 85, temperat...
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PMC9286925_01
Male
34
A 34-year-old Caucasian male was in his usual state of good health until July 2020 when he presented with a 1-week history of fever up to 39.3 C, sore throat, headaches, cough, and malaise. Having developed this during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, he presented to a COVID-19 testing site where jaundice was noted. He was tri...
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PMC4555937_01
Male
21
In January 2007, the patient, a 21-year-old male with tooth fracture sustained during a football game was referred to Center for Dental Specialties Visioli, Cascavel, Parana, Brazil. This study followed the Declaration of Helsinki on medical protocol and ethics. During the interview, the patient reported no history sug...
computed tomography, diagnostic imaging, odontogenic tumors, odontoma
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PMC5457763_01
Female
53
A 53-year-old female patient consulted physical medicine, rehabilitation and rheumatology department due to the pain radiating from the right inguinal region and the right hip to knee while she was being followed by general surgery clinic because of solid mass in the liver. During the assessment, patient complained of ...
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PMC4496644_01
Female
53
A 53-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presented with slowly progressive weakness in the lower extremities, new-onset numbness below the midthoracic area, urinary incontinence, and slurred speech. One year prior to presentation, she experienced left-sided transitory weakness involving the face and...
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PMC4862986_01
Female
21
A 21-year-old girl, while attending college, was referred to our outpatient department with a 12-day history of gradual onset of quadriparesis. Weakness was present both proximally and distally, was initially asymmetric to start with but reached its nadir and became almost symmetric within 2 days. Along with her weakne...
aquaporin-4, longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, therapeutic plasma exchange, tumefactive multiple sclerosis
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PMC5835301_01
Male
54
A 54-year-old male with past medical history of degenerative joint disease, major depressive disorder, polysubstance dependence, and history of childhood burn presented to the Emergency Department (ED) complaining of imbalance, irritability, outburst of temper, fatigue, and weakness for the last five days after he inge...
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PMC8329552_01
Female
64
The 64 years-old female, born in Campania region, is affected by arterial hypertension, potential occult HBV infection under prophylaxis with lamivudine and follicular variant of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, diagnosed in January 2018 and treated with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) chemothe...
orf3a, sars-cov-2, long-term infection, non-hodgkin lymphoma, novel variant, whole genome sequencing
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PMC6515148_01
Female
30
A 30 year old female on a routine antiretroviral clinic visit presented with diarrhea, abdominal discomfort, painful swallowing, epigastric pain and a facial rash spread on the forehead, nose, cheeks and chin. The rash on the face was pruritic (Fig. 1A) especially when the patient was exposed to sunlight. There were al...
hiv, isoniazid, niacin, nicotinamide, pellagra, supplements
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PMC7393322_01
Male
66
A 66-year-old gentleman presented acutely to secondary care with acutely worsening, progressive shortness of breath. His past medical history includes congestive cardiac failure, hypertension, wheelchair bound due to previous polio and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (ex-smoker with a 40-pack year smoking history...
ct, computerised tomography, ebus, endobronchial ultrasound, endobronchial ultrasound, endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (ebus-tbna), lung cancer, rose, rapid on-site evaluation, tbna, transbronchial needle aspiration, ttf-1, thyroid transcription factor 1, tumour thrombus
Labelled computerised tomography showing left upper lobe lung tumour contiguous with station 10 left lymph node and left pulmonary vein.
PMC7481734_01
Female
60
In 2017, a 60-year-old female presented to her General Practitioner (GP) in Scotland with a slow-healing 1 cm wound on her right finger. She had sustained a minor burn to the finger 9 days prior to her attendance. A swab was taken by the attending clinician. This swab subsequently grew toxigenic C. ulcerans . This res...
corynebacterium, public health, vaccination, wound infection, zoonoses
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PMC6165620_01
Female
46
A 46-year-old previously healthy female developed an insidious onset severe persistent headache, most prominent in the occipital region lasting for 10 days. Six days after the onset, she experienced dysarthria and a difficulty in moving her tongue within the mouth with a difficulty in eating and drinking. She did not c...
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PMC4532108_01
Female
39
A 39-year old woman was admitted to Severance Hospital via the emergency room with symptoms of palpitation, dyspnea on exertion and tarry stool for 20 days. There was no history of pulmonary tuberculosis, hypertension and diabetes mellitus. There was no family history of neurofibromatosis. Five years prior to admission...
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PMC2698174_01
Female
42
A 42-year-old woman had presented to the local clinic with jaundice of two months duration and she was suspected of having periampullary cancer; she was then referred to us and admitted to our hospital for further evaluation. The physical examination revealed no abnormality. The serum total bilirubin level was 3.1 mg/d...
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PMC8447091_01
Male
33
A 33-year-old man with a reported history of sickle cell anemia and a penicillin allergy presented to the emergency department (ED) with an extensive ulcerative rash involving his face, extremities, trunk, genitals, and back with sparing of the mucous membranes, eyes, palms, and feet (Figure 1). The rash initially bega...
acyclovir, cutaneous, dermatology, disseminated, herpes simplex virus, human immunodeficiency virus
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PMC5828564_01
Female
21
A 21-year-old female of mixed heritage (Caucasian and African American), with a history of provoked deep venous thrombosis diagnosed six months before, currently treated with warfarin, presented with complaints of acute chest pain. The pain was midsternal, severe, sharp, and worse with inspiration but improved by sitti...
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PMC3518091_01
Male
28
A 28-year-old man presented with recurrent outbreaks of herpes simplex virus (HSV) type 2 in the form of ulcers on the glans penis associated with the onset of red-to-brown maculopapules located predominantly in trunk in each recurrence. The patient had four recurrences on a two-year followup (Figure 1(a)). Positive se...
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PMC4712423_01
Female
76
A 76-year-old female presented with New York Heart Association class IV dyspnea. She had a history of hypertension and atrial fibrillation and was taking diuretics, angiotensin receptor blockers, amiodarone, and warfarin. On physical examination, an irregular heartbeat with a pansystolic murmur was auscultated, and pit...
heart septal defects, atrial, septal occluder device
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PMC5409999_01
Female
20
A 20 years old female patient, the sixth of a family of 8 children is treated since 2010 for edematous-ascitic syndrome related to a primary intestinal lymphangiectasia (or Wildmann's disease) suspected by hypoalbuminemia, lymphopenia and hypogammmaglobulinemia. The disease was confirmed by an intestinal biopsy indicat...
waldmann’s disease, intestinal, malabsorption, primary intestinal lymphangiectasia
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PMC9584768_01
Male
69
The patient was a 69-year-old male farmer who presented to a local hospital with right-sided chest pain, cough, sputum production, and fever for one week. Chest computed tomography (CT) at the local hospital showed multiple right pleural effusions and pneumothorax with right lung atelectasis. This patient had a cerebra...
porphyromonas endodontalis, trichomonas tenax, vats, aspiration, pyopneumothorax
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PMC5502507_01
Female
55
A 55-year-old female patient came to surgical outpatient clinic with complaint of gradual increasing painless swelling of the floor of the mouth and submental region under the tongue and beneath the chin with difficulty in speech and swallowing for 6 months of duration. No history of trauma, operation, or prolonged fev...
dermoid cyst, epidermoid cyst, sublingual, submandibular
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PMC6159108_01
Female
68
A Caucasian 68-year-old non-smoker female, without a significant medical history except for hypertension and family history of pancreatic cancer, underwent total splenopancreatectomy for ductal adenocarcinoma associated with branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (BD-IPMN) of the neck of the pancreas. Sinc...
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PMC8443791_01
Male
16
A 16-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital with a 10-day history of abdominal distension and epigastric pain, accompanied by anorexia, nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, palpitations, as well as low fever and night sweating. He had always been in good health with no significant medical or malignant family history. On physi...
case report, diagnosis, non-hodgkin’s lymphoma, peritoneal carcinomatosis, peritoneal lymphomatosis
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PMC8197667_01
Female
3
A 3-year and 6-month-old girl presented in December 2019, with fever, cough, rhinorrhea, and watery stools (a few times) for four days. Two weeks before that, she had a brief hospital stay for acute viral gastroenteritis. She was healthy and had been immunized appropriately for her age, including with BCG. The parents ...
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PMC5173513_01
Male
63
A 63-year-old man with a history of MS was referred to our hospital for a detailed investigation of an erythematous nodular lesion with ulceration present on his left mandible. Three months prior to referral, he developed a papular lesion on his left lower jaw, low-grade fever, lethargy, and muscle weakness. The cutane...
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PMC3710997_02
Male
67
The patient was a 67-year-old man with chronic glomerulonephritis. He received a heminephrectomy due to renal tuberculosis in 1955. His renal function progressively deteriorated, and albuminuria and hematuria had been present since his 30s. He first visited our hospital in 1999, and over the years his blood urea nitrog...
alzheimer's disease, chronic kidney disease, donepezil hydrochloride
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PMC8650667_01
Female
51
A 51-year-old patient was admitted to the outpatient department with swelling to the right shoulder and surrounding area, a skin wound, restriction in shoulder movement, and pain. The patient received rotator cuff repair surgery four years prior at an external clinic. Following the initial repair, she was operated on a...
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PMC8111671_01
Male
29
A 29-year-old man with Philadelphia chromosome-negative B-ALL had been treated in another hospital. He achieved CR after induction chemotherapy and continued consolidation chemotherapy. Although he had been in CR after the third course of consolidation chemotherapy, he had a relapse during the fourth. For reinduction t...
acute lymphoblastic leukemia, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, inotuzumab ozogamicin, posttransplant cyclophosphamide, sinusoidal obstruction syndrome
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PMC4016732_01
Male
41
A 41-year-old Caucasian man presented to the emergency department with left eye pain and loss of vision after complicated cataract surgery 2 days prior. His past ocular history was significant for blunt trauma to the left eye with a stick while riding an all-terrain vehicle 8 months ago; over the following 3 months, th...
candida dubliniensis, enucleation, exogenous endophthalmitis, ocular trauma
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PMC6354651_01
Male
17
A 17-year-old immunocompetent male visited our emergency department with a high fever, cough for four days previous, and abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea (5-6 times per day) for two days previous to admission. He also complained of a sore throat, purulent sputum, and rhinorrhea, as well as a headache and dizzines...
adenovirus, crp, c-reactive protein, ct, computed tomography, cidofovir, gi, gastrointestinal, healthy, immunocompetent, psi, pneumonia severity index, pneumonia, rt-pcr, real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, wbc, white blood cell, young adult
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PMC8632214_01
Male
48
A 48-year-old man was referred to our hospital for the study of cushingoid phenotype. Medical history included allergy to penicillin and dyslipidemia. He presented an ACTH of 152 pg/ml (range, 4.7-48.8 pg/ml) cortisol of 47 mug/dl (range, 5.27-22.45 mug/dl), dynamic endocrine laboratory tests were suggestive of CD, and...
nelson’s syndrome, aggressive pituitary tumors, capecitabine, case report, temozolomide
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PMC419374_01
Male
42
A 42-year-old Nigerian male was referred to the outpatient clinic of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital in May 2002 with a painless, slow growing recurrent left neck mass of 20 years, duration without any associated constitutional symptoms. There was no history of di...
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PMC7807103_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old man presented at our hospital complaining of palpitation and shortness of breath upon exertion. Palpitation and shortness of breath had begun approximately 3 years prior to presentation, but had become exacerbated over the past several weeks. The patient did not experience either palpitation or shortness ...
ceas, slco2a1, pachydermoperiostosis
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PMC8571293_01
Male
18
An 18-year-old male was admitted to the department of neurosurgery on March 14, 2016, with headache, nausea, and vomiting for 2 days. The patient denied a history of head trauma, operation, or any other infectious or systemic diseases, and he was not taking any medication. On examination, the patient's consciousness le...
cranial osteomyelitis, epidural abscess, sinusitis, spontaneous epidural hematoma
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PMC4718472_01
Female
33
A 33-year-old female recreational runner underwent hip arthroscopy for cam FAI. Diagnostic arthroscopic evaluation of the central compartment revealed an anterior labral tear at the 1-2 o'clock position. Labral repair was performed utilizing two 2.3-mm suture anchors (Osteoraptor, Smith and Nephew, Andover, MA, USA) pl...
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PMC4718472_02
Male
16
A 16-year-old male high-school swimmer with mixed FAI which was treated with elective arthroscopic rim trimming and femoroplasty. During suture anchor placement via mid-anterior portal for anterosuperior labral refixation, the acetabular articular cartilage was elevated but not penetrated by a 3.5-mm knotless anchor (P...
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PMC4718472_03
Male
30
A 30-year-old semi-professional bowler with symptomatic cam-pincer FAI underwent elective arthroscopic acetabuloplasty and femoroplasty. Labral refixation was performed via the modified mid-anterior portal with 3.5-mm suture anchors (Pushlock, Arthrex, Naples, FL, USA) was performed at the 1 and 2 o'clock positions. Du...
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PMC4978199_01
Female
71
A 71-year old immunocompetent female, with past medical history of osteoarthrosis, chronic obstructive lung disease, chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and nephrolithiasis, presented with postoperative left arthroplasty knee pain. The patient was 40 days post-operative from an uncomplicated left total knee arthropla...
arthroplasty, atypical, infection, mycobacterium, prosthetic, smegmatis
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PMC9124486_01
Female
68
A 68-year-old female patient with lumbosacral pain caused by a fall was admitted to a local 3rd tier hospital without fever, fatigue, and sweating. Blood tests showed that white blood cell (WBC) count was 7.42x109/L and neutrophils accounted for 64.3%, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) was 10mm/hr, and C-reactive pr...
brucella, complication, spondylitis, vertebroplasty
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PMC4863085_04
Female
26
A 26-year-old female student presented with 5-month history of upper back pain and 4-day weakness in the arms and legs with numbness from the chest down. Neurologically she had decreased sensation below T7, grade 4/5 power in the upper limbs, 3/5 power in the lower limbs with brisk reflexes, and increased tone and clon...
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PMC5458690_01
Male
20
Informed consent was obtained from the patient for the use of all images and publication of this report before the beginning of this project. A 20-year-old basketball player presented with a 2-year duration of the left groin pain after a basketball-related injury. The pain was aggravated by athletic activity and prolon...
case report, heterotopic ossification, hip arthroscopy
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PMC3469196_01
Male
8
An intact male, 8 years-old Labrador (Canis lupus familiaris) was referred to the Pathology Department of Firat University for postmortem examination from a farm in Bingol Province where in the eastern Turkey. The dog born in coastal region of Bursa Province, western Turkey and one year ago transferred to the Bingol. A...
dirofilaria immitis, dog, histopathology, pcr, paraffin
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PMC3420650_01
Male
13
A 13-year-old boy presented to Department of Orthopedics with pain and swelling in the right ankle. Swelling had appeared about 1 year back and was gradually increasing in size. Examination revealed bony thickening over the lateral malleolus. Ankle and subtalar joints had full range of mobility. Parameters of complete ...
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PMC7142386_01
Female
40
A 40-year-old female patient presented to our service with a 5-day history of progressive right-sided low back pain, which radiated over the right buttock into the anterior thigh in an L4 distribution. The pain was nonpositional and exacerbated by coughing. She also complained of new bifrontal headaches, difficulty in ...
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PMC9897006_01
Male
62
The patient was a 62-year-old African American male, with a past medical history of HIV, latent TB, chronic kidney disease stage 3a, essential hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and type 2 diabetes mellitus, who was brought to the emergency department by ambulance with complaints of a one-day history of chest pain, body ach...
antiretroviral therapy, hiv, pericardial effusion, tuberculosis, viral pericarditis
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PMC9744753_01
Male
75
A 75-year-old male patient (Han Chinese ethnicity) had headache and clusters of millet-sized blisters without fusion on the right side of the head and neck on February 24, 2022. The blisters were tight and shiny with surrounding redness, and the blister fluid was clear. The initial diagnosis was herpes zoster, and the ...
glycine receptor, herpes zoster, paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity, progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity and myoclonus, varicella-zoster virus
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PMC3343675_01
Female
55
A rare case of tubercular endometritis occurred in a 55-year-old Para 7, postmenopausal woman, who presented herself for cervical smear at the Medical Women's Centre in Enugu, the capital of Enugu State of Nigeria. The senior author (WO) observed at microscopy the diagnostic Langhans giant cells. This was the only case...
nigeria, pap smear, tuberculosis, endometrium, health education
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PMC4735480_01
Male
53
In July 2013 a 53-year-old white homeless man with a history of alcoholism was admitted to the hospital with long-standing cough, fever and fatigue. Physical examination revealed malnutrition with severe weight loss, dyspnea and decreased lung sounds primarily in the upper lobes. Chest radiograph and computed tomograph...
epidemiology, mycobacterium heckeshornense, infection, mycobacterium, pulmonary
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PMC5094598_01
Female
66
A 66-year-old lady presented with three-week history of night sweats, low-grade pyrexia and weight loss. She also had progressive dyspnoea on exertion over 3-4 weeks and non-productive cough that failed to respond to a seven-day course of oral amoxicillin. Her medical history included well controlled asthma, migraine, ...
cold agglutinin, haemolysis, lymphadenopathy, mycoplasma
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PMC10417011_01
Female
8
An 8-year-old patient presented to the Emergency Department of the Children's Clinical University Hospital (CCUH) in the late evening in August 2021, complaining of an acute febrile illness for 3 weeks with an intermittent febrile body temperature above 38 C, accompanied by submandibular oedema, abdominal pain, loose ...
churg–strauss syndrome, eosinophilic myocarditis, orbital involvement, paediatric hypereosinophilic syndrome, stroke
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PMC8076683_01
Female
27
During the 2016 ZIKV outbreak in Merida, Mexico, a 27-year-old woman in the third trimester of pregnancy was referred to medical geneticist because multiple malformations detected in the fetus. Informed consent was obtained for sampling, clinical evaluations, and for the publication report. Exploring the medical record...
zika virus, arthrogryposis, birth defects, congenital infection, disruption, microcephaly, sequence
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PMC6718363_01
Male
70
A 70-year-old man was admitted to internal medicine department with complaints of heartburn and intolerable chest pain with irradiation to the left arm and shoulder, neck and back. Pain had appeared a day before during domestic physical activity. Based on positive troponine blood test, electrocardiography (ECG), echoca...
acute mesenteric ischemia, case report, endovascular intervention, indocyanine green imaging
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PMC4077035_01
Female
59
A 59-year-old Chinese woman was admitted to the hospital with the chief complaint of a progressively enlarging mass in the left thoracic wall over the past seven months. At the initial examination, the tumor slightly protruded from the chest wall with the 2 cm in diameter, and gradually grew over in the past several mo...
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PMC9720252_01
Female
43
A 43-year-old woman with a history of acute myeloid leukemia was admitted to our hospital in July 12, 2020 for repeated fever during the previous 2 months, and a persistent fever for the previous 4 days. Two months previously, she presented with a fever, cough, and expectoration. At that time she was diagnosed with "in...
legionella pneumonia, case, literature review, metagenomic next-generation sequencing, pathogen diagnosis
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PMC7175989_01
Male
74
A 74-year-old male was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of our hospital with respiratory failure and was diagnosed with SARS. He was 9.5 years post orthotopic liver transplant for alcoholic cirrhosis. His current immunosuppression was cyclosporin 100 mg twice daily and prednisone 5 mg/day. His other medication inclu...
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PMC8299116_01
Male
33
A 33-year-old man presented repeat seizures and progressive headache for six months. A complete blood count (CBC) showed: hemoglobin 123g/L, white blood cell count 7.73 x 109/L, and percentage of eosinophil 0.009. Liver function showed: alanine transaminase (ALT) 92.8 U/L, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 44.9U/L, alka...
echinococcus multilocularis, adrenal gland, alveolar echinococcosis, diagnose, next-generation sequencing
Lung and abdominal CT images of the patient. Multiple Lesions were found in bilateral lung.
PMC8299116_01
Male
33
A 33-year-old man presented repeat seizures and progressive headache for six months. A complete blood count (CBC) showed: hemoglobin 123g/L, white blood cell count 7.73 x 109/L, and percentage of eosinophil 0.009. Liver function showed: alanine transaminase (ALT) 92.8 U/L, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 44.9U/L, alka...
echinococcus multilocularis, adrenal gland, alveolar echinococcosis, diagnose, next-generation sequencing
Lung and abdominal CT images of the patient. Multiple Lesions were found in bilateral lung.
PMC8299116_01
Male
33
A 33-year-old man presented repeat seizures and progressive headache for six months. A complete blood count (CBC) showed: hemoglobin 123g/L, white blood cell count 7.73 x 109/L, and percentage of eosinophil 0.009. Liver function showed: alanine transaminase (ALT) 92.8 U/L, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 44.9U/L, alka...
echinococcus multilocularis, adrenal gland, alveolar echinococcosis, diagnose, next-generation sequencing
Lung and abdominal CT images of the patient. and the liver.
PMC8299116_01
Male
33
A 33-year-old man presented repeat seizures and progressive headache for six months. A complete blood count (CBC) showed: hemoglobin 123g/L, white blood cell count 7.73 x 109/L, and percentage of eosinophil 0.009. Liver function showed: alanine transaminase (ALT) 92.8 U/L, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) 44.9U/L, alka...
echinococcus multilocularis, adrenal gland, alveolar echinococcosis, diagnose, next-generation sequencing
Lung and abdominal CT images of the patient. The right adrenal gland (yellow arrow) was obviously thickened (D).
PMC8072118_01
Female
63
A 63-year-old female patient was presented to hospital, in March 2019, with repeated dizziness and visual impairment. A computerized tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (CT/MRI) revealed a mass lesion in the left occipital lobe. In addition to the brain mass, positron emission tomography (PET)-CT also indicated a hyp...
ret fusion, tert promoter mutation, anlotinib, next-generation sequencing, tumor origin, undifferential thyroid cancer
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PMC7548324_01
Female
30
Systemic involvement was reported in 28/35 cases (80.0%). Patients with an abnormal chest study (fibrosis, granuloma, calcifications and other findings) but no mention of confirmed pulmonary disease by the original authors were not considered to have lung disease. Also, we considered miliary tuberculosis only when the ...
endophthalmitis, panophthalmitis, panuveitis, systematic review, tuberculosis
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PMC7548324_02
Male
45
TB endophthalmitis was diagnosed in 18/44 (40.9%) of cases and TB panophthalmitis was seen in 25/44 (56.8%) of cases. One case reported the final diagnosis as "ocular tuberculosis". Ocular outcomes were generally poor with 36/43 cases (83.7%) requiring enucleation, evisceration or exenteration. Pre-phthisis or phthisis...
endophthalmitis, panophthalmitis, panuveitis, systematic review, tuberculosis
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PMC10094453_01
Female
31
A 31-year-old woman felt epigastric discomfort without any obvious cause, along with glutted, nausea and vomit on December 28, 2018. She went to hospital two days later and treated with acid-inhibitory drug. However, there was no improvement with the patient. She underwent a gastroscopy showing chronic gastritis on Jan...
abdominal pain, acute abdomen, calcium sodium edentate, lead poisoning
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PMC8130703_01
Male
41
A 41-year-old male from Bangladesh presented to our hospital with complaints of dry cough, intermittent episodes of fever for the past 2 months, and weight loss of 17 kg over the previous 2 months. He was diabetic and had been on oral hypoglycemic agents and insulin for the past 1 year. He had no significant travel his...
burkholderia pseudomallei, f-18 fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography, fever of unknown origin, melioidosis, septic arthritis
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PMC2821394_01
Male
49
A 49-year-old Caucasian man developed a cough in early 2004. A chest X-ray revealed bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy, confirmed by thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan. He had no other symptoms. A diagnosis of sarcoidosis was considered, but his symptoms were thought insufficient to warrant treatment. In July 2004, he...
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